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In response to GS comment: Notwithstanding your hygienic tax paying plank the cost burden via food prices inflation still remain. The hygienic and tax paying story line is well demonstrated by the Hauz Khas, New Delhi episode on food joints!

What is the aam aadami rationale for service tax of take away and home delivery of food preparations to Pizza companies? Perhaps to ensure livelihood security of these companies? It is time to examine role of these companies in fueling food price inflation in the recent past.

I vividly remember once a kerala minister told the people to eat fish and drink milk since they were the cheaper than the rest. Now we can ask the Aam Admi to make a drastic change in the eating habits and eat Egg and Cheese Muffin for breakfast, Pizza for Lunch and A Burger for Dinner.

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GST has to be levited at every movement from a Restaurent, since even the food packets needs preparation, package and package materials and storage, all have labour orientted hence service tax, and sales tax has to be levied and collected infull without any exception and in some eating places no bill is levied and cash just received across the coutner for goods develred.

It's a welcome news for urban people & for rural too. Since the prices of grain, rice, vegitables are skyrocketing, rural people can now afford cheap pizzas & burgers from McD & others so. :))) Good decision from Congress Gov !

For Tour operator,the applicability of Service Tax should be rolled back, earlier it was on the commission of Rs. 10 Lacs and above per annum,now it is applicable on the gross sale of Rs. 10 Lacs and above.

hey media please act logical and spread the word. the food which in unhealthy (mcdonalds and dominos make junk food) is less expensive. and healthy foods suchs as vegetables, fruits, pulses, milk are expensive. And poor indian human will eat less expensive stuff.now what logic this stands for humans in india. Why india needs unhealthy humans. how we will grow in future if indian human will remain unhealthy. please understand.

Atleast these foreign brands provide job employment and pay tax to the government, unlike the vadapav, chat or the telhawalas.
There is no way one can determine the ramifications these road-side vendors by not contributing towards economy as the value of sales remain undetermined.

If the govt moves in and abolishes the tax structure then the people who order for takeaways and home delivery will benefit.But on the whole if one takes a look at the pricing then it is already high.most of the pizza or burgers if converted into dollars will amount to the same price being paid by the indians even though our per capita income is very low compared to the americans and europeans. It is time for these companies to justify the prize being same whether in dollar or rupee.

It is sad that Apex body of the country did not foresee this. How can they be such tardy in framing of rules and regulations. Why is that it is always the person on the road that is punished. When will the regulators be accountable for their lapses and arrogance?

Now, when these foreign companies have complained, the govt. has decided to remove Service Tax from Home Deliveries. The govt. never did this on the plea of Indian Restaurants doing Home Delivery. What a traitor Government !

Very wise decision is considered. It will save time for housewives. It will save their gas/electricity bill for cooking. And these giants chain pay their taxes very honestly and new generation get jobs and young one socialise in a sobre way. Now the wada pav and other road stall will again try to resist it.

Good move by the government. These restaurants charge service tax on the total food amount and not on the service provided, so now at least that additional black money won't be collected directly in name of service charge. Does anyone know about any site where we can complain or register our grievances about these things done by these restaurants???

The topic is service tax. There is no tax(0%) on rice/dal/vegetables.
They should reduce service tax to 4%. They need to calculate the service tax of each locality and atleast 60% of the amount should be placed back into the same locality through development. Other 40% can be used for developing underdeveloped locality.

These restaurants provide some jobs to the youngsters! 2ndly - who is going to monitor sales from takeaway and home delivery from sales from in-premise dining!They should find some other way to collect service tax (other than by locating an air-conditioner)!

I just do not find any logic in imposing service tax in any type of restaurant. We pay VAT on the cost of food served, then why any service tax thereafter. If at all there is any Service charge levied by the restaurant, service tax should be on the service charge and not on the cost of food served. Service tax is only for service and not for sale of food.

Good for the customer, no big deal for the Chains, loss for the government. The eat-out business is a $48 billion business, 24 times, yes 24 times the size of Bollywood. As Smita Jatia rightly says, the taxes do not make buy or not decisions for such food, or any food for that matter. The slump is due to the reduction in general discretionary spending due to recession and not service tax.

Expect cooking gas/LPG prices to go up, not come down. The current pricing of gas in India is far below international prices across Asia. If we want to promote gas exploration in the country, we will have to offer international pricing to exploration and production companies. Otherwise, we will remain slaves to imports for our energy needs.

i don't agree with you. i think there will not be any service tax and vat as these all are food item is not luxury item but necessity item. Common peoples are having food while traveling or on any compulsion. So there is no purpose of imposing any sort of taxes on that. Yeah there is vat on AC or other apparatus which any restaurant is using.